Architect and antiques dealer Carlos Aparicio merges French
flair and Scandinavian serenity in his Palladian-style villa on the Florida coast

Living Room

Living Room

Architects have a reputation for sweating the small stuff. So it’s not surprising that Carlos Aparicio cites as inspiration the work of his forerunners Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Gio Ponti—early-20th-century architects who each obsessively oversaw their projects down to the design of the doorknobs. Like these Renaissance men, Aparicio conceives of a house as a whole entity. His vision for a space encompasses everything from the floor plans to the light fixtures to the colors of the walls.

In the living room of architect Carlos Aparicio’s Miami home, the sofa is custom made, the armchairs are by Jean-Michel Frank, and the 1920s light fixture is by Carl Hallberg; the columns are of French limestone, the rugs are midcentury Swedish, and the flooring is coral limestone.